Spirit Smarts, Puting the Mental in Elemental Options

[Raife]

I know elementals can have really good intelligence ratings, but how do you think they interpret our world?

This came up in a game we just finished playing. One of my players used a favor to command his air elemental to manifest and attack. Now he felt the air elemental would use its confuse powers before it engulfed ect ect.

I simply had the elemental engulf guys and start sufficating them. There was some debate over the matter on the "intelligence" level of the force 7 elemental. I figured it thought like air, not like a person.

The elemental just deprived its targets of air (creating a vortex and pulling the air away from the person it engulfed) I recon that the "confuse" spell it can use is more an effect that mimics a confuses spell, by buffeting the target around.

He thought the elemental was smarter and could interpret our world much easier. I know many people would say "your the GM, end of story" but I don't like to have that kind of heavy handed approach.

So how do you think elementals think?